Problem installing plugins

[Jeremy Leggat]

Subhendu Ghosh wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Jeremy Leggat wrote:
>
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I am stuck trying to install nagios-plugins-1.3.1 from the tar file.  
>>Having already untarred the install files to their own directory, when I
>>run ./configure it stops at:
>>
>>checking for ping... /bin/ping
>>
>>No error message, the configure program just seems to hang.  I am
>>running Mandrake 9.1 and have already installed Nagios 1.1 from tar
>>without any problems.
>>
>>    
>>
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>Normally check_ping uses "ping -n -c %d %s" or "ping -n -U -c %d %s" 
>
>Lookis like Mandrake 9.1 may have introduces a new syntax - 
>
>Can you take a look at the man page for the options?
>
>Also try passing arguments to configure 
>"--with-ping-command=SYNTAX sets syntax for ICMP ping"
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Thanks,

I specified the syntax like you suggested and it installed with no problems.

Jeremy



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